The False Prophet
The Chosen One is dead.
He died in a stairwell at Wardlaw, and the army that followed him broke and ran. Corporal Ned Furze carried a half-loaf of marching bread out of the Scald and could not bring himself to eat it. Eight years later, the bread is still in his pack.
Captain Tom Dunning is not a hero. He has a bad arm, three hundred tired men, and a bridge to hold. When the temple names him in a new prophecy, he does what any sensible officer would do: he refuses. Then he rides north anyway, because someone has to count the living and the dead, and no one else will do it properly.
What follows is not a story of destiny. It is a story of ledgers and last words, of forms filled out four times, of a drill manual written in a rented room above a saddler's shop. It is about the men who keep the records when the gods go silent, and the quiet work of refusing to become a myth.
The False Prophet is a novel of ordinary competence in a world that keeps demanding heroes.
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